Search results matching tags 'picture books' and 'Abraham Lincoln'http://evpl.org/community/search/SearchResults.aspx?a=1&o=DateDescending&tag=picture+books,Abraham+Lincoln&orTags=0Search results matching tags 'picture books' and 'Abraham Lincoln'en-USCommunityServer 2008 SP1 (Build: 30619.63)Have You Heard This Story About Abe Lincoln ?http://evpl.org/community/blogs/kids/archive/2008/10/04/have-you-heard-this-story-about-abe-lincoln.aspxSat, 04 Oct 2008 17:27:00 GMT9a7b961d-7882-4302-b701-732ca0e566f2:682UndergroundLibrarian@evpl<p><img width="80" src="http://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?UserID=III21&amp;Password=BT0005&amp;Return=T&amp;Type=S&amp;Value=0375937684&amp;erroroverride=1&amp;" height="67" style="float:left;" alt="" />There&#39;s a new&nbsp;picture book&nbsp;about Abe Lincoln.&nbsp; Deborah Hopkinson has written&nbsp; <a href="http://evans.evpl.org/search/t?SEARCH=abe%20lincoln%20crosses%20a%20creek">Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek; A Tall, Thin Tale (Introducing His Forgotten Frontier Friend).</a>&nbsp;John Hendrix has drawn the pictures. When Abe was seven , he and his 3-years-older friend Austin&nbsp;wanted to get to the other side of Knob Creek, but the water was very high and neither one of them could swim.&nbsp; Abe dared Austin to cross on a log, and he did.&nbsp; But when Abe started across, he fell into the water, and Austin rescued him.</p>
<p>The interesting part of the book is its illustrations and the&nbsp;way Hopkinson relates the story.&nbsp; She tells it as if she is sitting next to a bunch of people, just talking to them.&nbsp; Maybe it happened this way, she says, and then again, maybe it happened this other way, and she tells both ways.&nbsp; In the meantime, John Hendrix is busily drawing each version, and often we see his hand in the bottom right corner of the page, holding a&nbsp;a paintbrush or a pencil, &nbsp;drawing the double page spread.</p>
<p>Deborah Hopkinson says there&#39;s a moral to this story, and she gives us a couple choices.&nbsp; What do you think the moral should be?</p>
<p>Would this be a good candidate for this year&#39;s Caldecott Award?</p>